I feel like the only real consulting is strategy and everything else is really just bodyshop consulting. Thoughts?

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You work for IBM. Crawl back into your Lotus Notes cave.

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I'm a hand model consultant

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Sometimes, but I usually remind myself that as the startup mantra goes, ideas are worthless without execution. In my mind, the best consultants would do both -- set the direction as well as see it through. Many a good idea has been lost in translation, after all

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Yes.

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Strategy consulting is just about over and done with

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P2 is right. Strategy work is not selling. Only Tech, go to market, compliance is selling at PwC.

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Strategy ain't dead

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^Truth^

IBM's strategy consulting is equivalent to a sales role. How many times do you guys come up with a recommendation to the client that an IBM product is a solution? Like 100%?

Hahaha... Strat is worthless without execution

If executives can't execute a strategy the company is screwed. Can't outsource everything.

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